My job before coding was working 12 hour days, 30 days at a time on a cement tug and barge. I'm never going back. I'll take all the on call you can give me.

I know tech leads who consistently work 11 hour days. Different kind of work though.

Were you hourly?

Daily. And it wasnt 12 on 12 off, it was 6 on 6 off 6 on 6 off, so you couldn't get good sleep

Ah, that sucks. I should have assumed as much since almost maritime work is not great until you get way up the chain.

Most hourly positions with longer hours are nice. I have a buddy in construction that would make great money with all the extra hours. Any salary or daily pay stuff is not cool.

I've never worked more than 10:30-5:30pm in a full-time job in this industry, and of those hours I'd say the real "work" part has generally never exceeded 4 hours/day. I don't even think it's really possible to do more than 4 hours/day of deeply focused, productive coding.

The job is not really stressful because at the end of the day, it's just software. Unless you're working on life-critical medical stuff or something, if the site goes down, nobody dies. Also I've never had an on-call job.

Name me an industry that pays more with less work and less stress.